What is so damn wrong with human cloning? I'd be a funder!?

Question

**** you and these religious questions, I don't like it when walls talk, guess who's the wall? Anyway, me being an artist and a patron of scientific achievement, it is Man's scientific destiny to play God and create life. When I die, I'd rather be cloned and all my money will strictly go towards mass human cloning and you Christians cannot stop me from funding Man's true place in this world of cutting-edge technology!

Answer 1

Let's defect to China where they don't give a damn.

Answer 2

Argh, my computer went off when I was answering this question. Now I have to start all over again.

Quite a good question. Even if you don't bring God into this, let me see.... I don't really discourage you to fund these projects. To me it is quite magnificent. It's like, clone an animal, get it's fur, it's meat, or clone a nearly extinct animal. I think that is quite great. No more extinct issues!

Well, hmm... next think. If you kill a chicken or a tiger, nobody will complain. You eat a chicken. You kill a tiger for fun and fur(Somebody MIGHT complain about this.) But you DON'T kill people. Look back at the scientific records on cloning. How many animals have lasted more than a few minutes, a few hours, or days? I'd say, not many, unless for Dolly. Many died, and even Dolly survived, Dolly only lived for 6 years, a short lifespan for a sheep. And there is this Korean scientist that perhaps faked a dog to be a cloned one.

Well next on, I'll think, will the cloned human being survive like a normal human? Will the clone be a living zombie-doll? Who willl take care of a new double identity(Science mostly can handle this, I guess)? And most of all, will the clone suffer the same fate as the animal clones? We can kill animals, but a human kin, even though he is a mindless zombie? Nope. Making a guy alive then killing him again. It sounds like a creepy theory, but literally it's quite true. Can't you imagine a clone with a mind and soul dying telling you" why do you do this? I'm suffering, why are you playing with lives?" What if it really happens? Science is to try and discover everything, and to get closer to God, but some are best not to see, like what is the origin of God.

OK, perhaps they can just do the animal clonings right, then go to the human-cloning. If you all really have your heart in this, then nothing shall stop you. If you can't find the right track, then we're sorry for you. But either way, I am still not sure. I don't protest, but I don't support either. So, take the first step right, then go on. a bad beginning makes a bad ending. But remember, men proposes, God disposes. This is what I think, but since I'm still a kid, many points here will be scattered and messy. Sorry.

Answer 3

Please, dont bring God into this. There are two factors
with human cloning, Morality and Science, for morality...
For human cloning to be created, we would need test
subjects, and who would those be? the most approved
subjects would be unborne babies and animals, now,
lets talk about dolly the sheep, dolly the sheep was
said to be perfect, yeah, a pure scientific marvel,
but what happened? she developed arthiritis and at a very young age, so that leaves the animal part, what about
the unborne babies? 3000 unborne babies were tested
in a laboratory (sorry dont know the location) and what
were the findings? only 0.58% of those which were tested
on either survived, or born with medical problems, and another thing, if we dont die, than the human evolution
will stop, billions of years of progress will be stopped,
human evolution is what gave us power against these sicknesses
thats how we became accustomed to flu and the colds,
we developed a near immunity to these diseases, due to our millions of years evolving, and from my point of view, you seem to be a person who is quite familiar with these kinds of subjects, now i wonder why you didn't even stop to try to think about my points, besides, why should we spend billions of dollars and dozens of years on a project that we don't know will work, are we willing to waste all that for unsure human cloning? and are you prepared to fund over 150 billion dollars? think about this, and of God knew that being resurrected will be good for us, than he would have done it a long time ago, and remember, God's the smartest being in this whole universe, your comments please?

Answer 4

Was that a maniacal laugh?

I don't think there's anything inherently "wrong" with cloning -- and I agree with your idea that science has not only the right but the duty to push the boundaries -- but actually cloning a human being opens one big nasty stinking can of worms.

We're talking some serious logistical and ethical problems here. Would they be equal to all other humans that were conceived naturally? Or would they be considered inferior or even superior to us? Who would raise them? Could they just be adopted by anyone or would they have to be "lab rats" for their entire lives? And I won't even go into the population concerns.

Answer 5

What would be the purpose of these clones? Why would we create clones if someone wasn't going to use it for their own selfish means? What if their were hundreds of clones of you? Would that diminish your worth or importance?

Knowing the way that humanity has evolved so far, people would only use clones as servants or soldiers, or harvest them for body parts. They would never be given the opportunity of a normal life. In cloning, we are giving ourselves dominance over life and civil rights.

Answer 6

Never a good idea to play God or to tamper with nature. Nature/God always has its revenge. Human life is too precious to be manufactured. It's morally wrong. What kind of life would the clone have? Is it fair to bring them into the world this way? & what would be done to them? The byproducts of it (harvesting body parts etc) would be abhorrent. It cheapens human life. Besides, how can you justify copying people when the world is already overpopulated? Would we then have to limit the new people being born & only create copies of the ones who were wealthy enough to afford the service.

This isn't cutting-edge technology, it's creepy science fiction & should never become science fact.

Answer 7

The real danger in cloning is slavery and soldiers.

Answer 8

Well since every spirit is assigned a body then what will be inside those empty bodies since the spirit that belongs to it is in the original body?

Answer 9

nothing much...the clone will never fit in and will one day bring a gun to school, shoot everyone down and kill himself

Answer 10

What if your clone disagrees?